159986 - middle mouse button doesn't open new tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 151249

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Max Waterman]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020727
BuildID:    2002072703

On IRIX and Linux, there is an option such that clicking on an 'http://' link
using the middle mouse button will open a new tab displaying that link.

On Mac OS X, clicking the middle mouse button has no effect (even with the
option enabled).

Control-click is also an option which is supposed to open the link in a new tab,
but which also has no effect on OS X.

Max.
Max.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.enable preference to open link in new tab for middle click and control click
2.middle click on a link and/or control click on a link
3.

Actual Results:  Nothing happens.

(control-click seems to be the same as a right click)

Expected Results:  should open a new tab with the link loading

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

What kind of mouse?
Possible dup of bug 151249.
Possibly related: bug 106692, bug 106215

Comment 2

[Max Waterman]

> ------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2002-07-29 15:18 -------
> What kind of mouse?

Two Logitech mice (at different locations), neither of which has the
middle-mouse functionality, and one of which is supported by the new logitech
mouse drivers (they only support USB keyboard/mice, and the other one I have is
a PS/2).

Ref Logitech Command Centre, which is now at versions 1.0.0 (ie released, no
longer beta) <http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=14421&db=mac>

> Possible dup of bug 151249.

Yup, I think so, though with a different mouse. I don't think the type of mouse
makes any difference (I'm pretty sure I've used other mice also with 3 buttons,
and none of them work).

> Possibly related: bug 106692, bug 106215

Yup, sounds likely.

Max.

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

And you have this in your prefs?

user_pref("middlemouse.openNewWindow", true);

Comment 4

[Max Waterman]

> ------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2002-07-29 16:43 -------
> And you have this in your prefs?
> 
> user_pref("middlemouse.openNewWindow", true);

Er, I do now, and it doesn't make any difference, as far as I can tell.

Max.

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

hmm. Keep in mind that mozilla must be closed when you edit prefs.js - or
changes are overwritten on quit. (And changes won't take effect untill a fresh
start.)

Comment 6

[Max Waterman]

> ------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2002-07-29 16:55 -------
> hmm. Keep in mind that mozilla must be closed when you edit prefs.js - or
> changes are overwritten on quit. (And changes won't take effect untill a fresh
> start.)

I kept that in mind when I did it....and...checking...yes, the preferences did
stick.

Max.

Comment 7

[jag (Peter Annema)]

I've been using command+click for a while on Mac OS X, so that should at least
work, if you have all your prefs set correctly. I realize the preference text
says "control+click", that should be command+click on the Mac, unfortunately we
haven't gotten around yet to fixing that text.

Comment 8

[Max Waterman]

re command-click

Indeed it does! I more than likely was misled by the word 'control' in prefs.

Thanks for the w/a.

Max.

Comment 9

[Greg K.]

Confirmed using FizzillaCFM/2002072203 and a Kensington Optical Pro mouse.

Comment 10

[Andy Lyttle]

I just filed bug 180799 to fix the text in Preferences.  Definitely a dupe of
bug 151249, and I'd figured something like bug 106692 was the answer. :-)

Comment 11

[lida_tang]

Very simply, Mozilla on MacOS X doesn't recognize the middle mouse button. This
is easily confirmed by attaching a mousedown event handler on a page to alert
all mouse presses. so 151249 and this are symptoms of 106692

Comment 12

[Frankie]

*** Bug 181358 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

*** Bug 198558 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[chris]

Camino, however, does not have this bug (ie. middle button opens a new tab just
fine). Using a Microsoft optical wheel mouse (USB). I'm seeing the same thing in
Mozilla as Max has.

Comment 15

[Chris Schanck]

Just another confirm, and this is hugely annoying because of my usage of Moz on
Win & Linux. Middle-button is ingrained in my habits, and making moz really hard
to use on Mac OS X. Safari does support this.

Comment 16

[Justin Sheehy]

This bug is the main reason why I haven't migrated to Firefox.

Comment 17

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

*** Bug 204640 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[Adam Webb]

it should be noted that the middle click support should address not only opening
links in a new tab, but also when middle-clicking on an already opened tab, the
tab should close.  This appears to be the way the Linux and Windows versions behave.

Comment 19

[Brion Vibber]

(In reply to comment #18)
> it should be noted that the middle click support should address not only opening
> links in a new tab, but also when middle-clicking on an already opened tab, the
> tab should close.  This appears to be the way the Linux and Windows versions
behave.

Preliminary patch for bug 151249 resolves this. As far as I can see this bug is
pretty much a duplicate of that one, rather than dependent on it.

Comment 20

[Stuart Morgan]

Definitely looks like a duplicate, and having both open is fragmenting discussion. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151249 ***